I am trying to setup margins for my Illustrator doent, and the Separation Setup option in the file menu is greyed out. I have no idea how to make it active. I've searched the Help contents and found nothing.
Thanks in advance!...

Separation Setup Dialog Box

I am trying to setup margins for my Illustrator doent, and the Separation Setup option in the file menu is greyed out. I have no idea how to make it active. I've searched the Help contents and found nothing.

Re: Separation Setup Dialog Box

Jill,

The separation setup option is available only if you have selected a PostScript printer.

If you have one of the Adobe Acrobat applications (rather than the free Reader), select Adobe PDF as your printer. That will be recognized as a PostScript device, and you'll be able to "print" seps to individual PDF files.

Re: Separation Setup Dialog Box

Jill,

Margins are not set in the separations dialog. You don't set margins in Illustrator as it is an illustration program, not a page layout program. But if you have the artboard set to your page size, and you turn rulers on, you can set guides to define your margins.